ЯЗЫКОВАЯ РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ КОНЦЕПТА БЛАГОДАРНОСТЬ

The proposed article examines the linguistic representation of the concept GRATITUDE in the linguistic consciousness of native speakers of the Russian language and in the national corpus of the Russian language. Gratitude arises on the basis of an emotional and rational assessment of what is happening, the expression of gratitude is ritualized. The addressee of gratitude can be not only specific people, but also communities of people and non-personalized entities: the world, God. The purpose of the article is to study a fragment of the conceptual field of the Russian language. The methods are free associative experiment and contextual analysis. Contextual analysis is used to identify and describe the pragmatic potential of the behavioral speech act. Behabitives are a mixed group of speech acts related to social behavior and relationships between people. Behabitives include the notion of reacting to the behavior of other people, as well as the attitude towards someone's behavior in the past or in the future and the explicit expression of this attitude. The data of a free associative experiment, dictionaries, data of the national corpus of the Russian language are used as material.